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Adverbs and adverbial adjuncts at the interfaces /

This book aims to clarify - on the basis of mainly Hungarian data - basic issues concerning the category 'adverb', the function 'adverbial', and the grammar of adverbial modification. It argues for the PP analysis of adverbials, and claims that they enter the derivation via left-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kiss, Katalin É
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2009]
Colección:Interface explorations ; 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book aims to clarify - on the basis of mainly Hungarian data - basic issues concerning the category 'adverb', the function 'adverbial', and the grammar of adverbial modification. It argues for the PP analysis of adverbials, and claims that they enter the derivation via left- and right-adjunction. Their merge-in position is determined by the interplay of syntactic, semantic, and prosodic factors. The semantically motivated constraints discussed also include a type restriction affecting adverbials semantically incorporated into the verbal predicate, an obligatory focus position for scalar a.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 377 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-374) and index.
ISBN:9783110214802
3110214806
3110214032
9783110214031